Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
On April 7, 2001, the 5th Special Anticorruption Criminal Court issued an order extending the investigation against Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres, General Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos and thirteen other people for the crimes of aggravated homicide, serious injuries and illicit grouping in the Barrios Altos case. An arrest warrant …
General Nicolas Hermoza admitted, for the first time before Congress, the previously denied possibility that some members of the military had participated in the La Cantuta kidnapping. This admission contradicted his previous statement of April 20, 1993.
On May 6, 1993, General EP (r) Rodolfo Robles Espinoza, third in line in the Peruvian Army, in a public letter accused Army commanders and intelligence advisor Vladimiro Montesinos Torres of maintaining an operational command responsible for crimes against humanity, among them those of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. In …
On April 20, 1993, in a tense session, General EP Hermoza Ríos exposed the institutional disclaimers of the Armed Forces before the members of the Human Rights Commission of the CCD. The following day, in an attitude of defiance and intimidation, he led an unusual and unprecedented parade of tanks …
General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos went before the investigative commission and emphatically denied that the Army had programmed and executed the operation during which the students and the teacher from La Cantuta were detained. This initial denial was later contradicted by the general himself.
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